TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

September 13, 2001

>TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

>

>This editorial, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.

>

>America: The Good Neighbor.

>

>Widespread, but only partial, news coverage was given recently to a

>remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian

>television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant

>remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:

>

> " This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most

>generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.

>Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out

>of

>the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and

>forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying

>even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

>

>When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who

>propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the

>streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant

>cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59

>American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The

>Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into

>discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about

>the decadent, warmongering Americans.

>

>I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the

>erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other

>country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the

>Lockheed Tri-Star, or the DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why

>do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?

>

>Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the

>moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk

>about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American

>technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times -

>and safely home again.

>

>You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store

>window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued

>and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they

>are

>breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home

>to spend here.

>

>When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through

>age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them When the Pennsylvania Railroad

>and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose.

>Both

>are still broke.

>

>I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other

>people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to

>the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during

>the San Francisco earthquake.

>

>Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired

>of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with

>their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at

>the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is

>not one of those. "

>

>Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!!

>This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the

>United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the

>rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything,

>and

>never even get a thank you for the things we do. I would hope that each of

>you would send this to as many people as you can and emphasize that they

>should send it to as many of their friends until this letter is sent to

>every person on the web. >

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September 13, 2001